CALIFORNIA FUNERAL DIRECTOR
LICENSE POST FINAL EVALUATION 2026
TESTED QUESTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ WIC 12152.
Answer: In determining eligibility of any individual for the state
supplementary payment administered by the federal government, in
addition to any other income or resources disregarded by the secretary,
the following additional amounts of income or resources of the
individual shall be disregarded:
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(e) The value of the following items in the aggregate except that any
amount paid in excess of one thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800) or
the dollar limit imposed by federal law, whichever is lower, shall not be
disregarded:
(1) Money or securities placed in an irrevocable trust for funeral,
cremation, or interment expenses with any of the trustees mentioned in
Section 7736 of the Business and Professions Code or Section 8775 of
the Health and Safety Code.
(2) Money or securities placed in an irrevocable trust created by a
deposit in an insured savings institution made by one person of his or her
own money in his or her own name as trustee for a funeral director to
,provide payment for funeral services rendered the funeral director upon
the depositor's death.
(3) Life or burial insurance purchased specifically for funeral, cremation,
or interment expense, which is placed in an irrevocable trust or which
has no loan or surrender value available to the recipient.
(4) Securities issued by a licensed cemetery authority which by their
terms are convertible into payment for funeral, cremation, or interment
expenses.
(f) Interment plots as defined in Section 7022 of the Health and Safety
Code.
⩥ WIC 17409.
Answer: There shall be exempt from the transfers and grants authorized
by Section 17109 and from execution on claims under Section 17403
against property acquired by persons for the support of whom public
moneys have been expended all of the following property:
...
(d) Funds placed in trust for funeral or burial expenses not exceeding
one thousand dollars ($1,000).
⩥ BPC 7615.
,Answer: A funeral director is a person engaged in or conducting, or
holding himself or herself out as engaged in any of the following:
(a) Preparing for the transportation or burial or disposal, or directing and
supervising for transportation or burial or disposal of human remains.
(b) Maintaining an establishment for the preparation for the
transportation or disposition or for the care of human remains.
(c) Using, in connection with his or her name, the words "funeral
director," or "undertaker," or "mortician," or any other title implying that
he or she is engaged as a funeral director.
⩥ BPC 7616.
Answer: (a) A licensed funeral establishment is a place of business
conducted in a building or separate portion of a building having a
specific street address or location and devoted exclusively to those
activities as are incident, convenient, or related to the preparation and
arrangements, financial and otherwise, for the funeral, transportation,
burial or other disposition of human remains and including, but not
limited to, either of the following:
(1) A suitable room for the storage of human remains.
, (2) A preparation room equipped with a sanitary flooring and necessary
drainage and ventilation and containing necessary instruments and
supplies for the preparation, sanitation, or embalming of human remains
for burial or transportation.
(b) Licensed funeral establishments under common ownership or by
contractual agreement within close geographical proximity of each other
shall be deemed to be in compliance with the requirements of paragraph
(1) or (2) of subdivision (a) if at least one of the establishments has a
room described in those paragraphs.
(c) Except as provided in Section 7609, and except accredited mortuary
science programs engaged in teaching students the art of embalming, no
person shall operate or maintain or hold himself or herself out as
operating or maintaining any of the facilities specified in paragraph (2)
of subdivision (a), unless he or she is licensed as a funeral director.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a funeral
establishment to conduct its business or financial transactions at the
same location as its preparation or storage of human remains.
(e) Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to render unlawful the
conduct of any ambulance service from the same premises as those on
which a licensed funeral establishment is conducted, including the
maintenance in connection wi
LICENSE POST FINAL EVALUATION 2026
TESTED QUESTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ WIC 12152.
Answer: In determining eligibility of any individual for the state
supplementary payment administered by the federal government, in
addition to any other income or resources disregarded by the secretary,
the following additional amounts of income or resources of the
individual shall be disregarded:
...
(e) The value of the following items in the aggregate except that any
amount paid in excess of one thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800) or
the dollar limit imposed by federal law, whichever is lower, shall not be
disregarded:
(1) Money or securities placed in an irrevocable trust for funeral,
cremation, or interment expenses with any of the trustees mentioned in
Section 7736 of the Business and Professions Code or Section 8775 of
the Health and Safety Code.
(2) Money or securities placed in an irrevocable trust created by a
deposit in an insured savings institution made by one person of his or her
own money in his or her own name as trustee for a funeral director to
,provide payment for funeral services rendered the funeral director upon
the depositor's death.
(3) Life or burial insurance purchased specifically for funeral, cremation,
or interment expense, which is placed in an irrevocable trust or which
has no loan or surrender value available to the recipient.
(4) Securities issued by a licensed cemetery authority which by their
terms are convertible into payment for funeral, cremation, or interment
expenses.
(f) Interment plots as defined in Section 7022 of the Health and Safety
Code.
⩥ WIC 17409.
Answer: There shall be exempt from the transfers and grants authorized
by Section 17109 and from execution on claims under Section 17403
against property acquired by persons for the support of whom public
moneys have been expended all of the following property:
...
(d) Funds placed in trust for funeral or burial expenses not exceeding
one thousand dollars ($1,000).
⩥ BPC 7615.
,Answer: A funeral director is a person engaged in or conducting, or
holding himself or herself out as engaged in any of the following:
(a) Preparing for the transportation or burial or disposal, or directing and
supervising for transportation or burial or disposal of human remains.
(b) Maintaining an establishment for the preparation for the
transportation or disposition or for the care of human remains.
(c) Using, in connection with his or her name, the words "funeral
director," or "undertaker," or "mortician," or any other title implying that
he or she is engaged as a funeral director.
⩥ BPC 7616.
Answer: (a) A licensed funeral establishment is a place of business
conducted in a building or separate portion of a building having a
specific street address or location and devoted exclusively to those
activities as are incident, convenient, or related to the preparation and
arrangements, financial and otherwise, for the funeral, transportation,
burial or other disposition of human remains and including, but not
limited to, either of the following:
(1) A suitable room for the storage of human remains.
, (2) A preparation room equipped with a sanitary flooring and necessary
drainage and ventilation and containing necessary instruments and
supplies for the preparation, sanitation, or embalming of human remains
for burial or transportation.
(b) Licensed funeral establishments under common ownership or by
contractual agreement within close geographical proximity of each other
shall be deemed to be in compliance with the requirements of paragraph
(1) or (2) of subdivision (a) if at least one of the establishments has a
room described in those paragraphs.
(c) Except as provided in Section 7609, and except accredited mortuary
science programs engaged in teaching students the art of embalming, no
person shall operate or maintain or hold himself or herself out as
operating or maintaining any of the facilities specified in paragraph (2)
of subdivision (a), unless he or she is licensed as a funeral director.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a funeral
establishment to conduct its business or financial transactions at the
same location as its preparation or storage of human remains.
(e) Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to render unlawful the
conduct of any ambulance service from the same premises as those on
which a licensed funeral establishment is conducted, including the
maintenance in connection wi
